SwingDJs

AllMusic sucks for this kind of research and the label has no web site that I could find... so the listing is from Amazon. (Which doesn't sell these discs, but maintains a listing for the zShops.)

If you haven't heard of an artist, he's probably a blues artist, unless he has a foriegn-sounding name, in case you might have found yourself the next super-obscure swing/groove room-rocker from France. Who knows? There's certainly a lot of great music here. Some of the albums with individual titles are no doubt also titled as DB&B ("Definitive Black & Blue").

Anderson, Cat - Cat Speaks
Anderson, Cat - Definitive Black & Blue Sessions
Ashby, Harold - Definitive B&B
Badini, Gerald - Night at the Popcorn-Geneva (Ellington tribute?)
Blue, Little Joe/Eddie Burns - Chicago Blues Festival 1986
Broonzy, Big Bill - 1935-40
Brown, Clarence "Gatemouth" - DB&B
Brown, Clarence "Gatemouth" - The Blues Ain't Nothin'
Buckner, Milt - And His Alumni
Buckner, Milt - Block Chords Parade
Buckner, Milt - Definitive B&B: Green Onions
Buckner, Milt - Pianistically Yours
Buckner, Milt - Them There Eyes
Buckner, Milt & Jay McShann - Kansas City Memories
Burns, Eddie Guitar - Lonesome Feeling
Butler, Billy - DB&B
Carter, Benny - Various Facets of a Genius
Casey, Al - Jumpin' With Al
Chamblee, Eddie - Blowing In Paris
Cheatham, Doc - Hey Doc
Cobb, Arnett - Deep Purple
Cobb, Arnett - Jumpin' At The Woodside
Cobb, Arnett - Wild Man From Texas
Cobb, Arnett / Guy Lafitte - The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions: Tenor Abrupt
Coleman, Michael, Eddie Lusk - Chicago Blues Festival 1991
Davis, Eddie "Lockjaw" - DB&B
Davis, Eddie "Lockjaw" - Jaws Strikes Again
Davis, Eddie "Lockjaw" - Light & Lovely
Davis, Wild Bill - All Right, OK You Win
Davis, Wild Bill - Lotus Blossom
Davis, Wild Bill - Out Of Nowhere
Davis, Wild Bill - Wild Cat
Davis, Wild Bill & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - In Chateauneuf du Pape [LIVE]
Davis, Wild Bill & Floyd Smith - Impulsions
Dizz, Lefty - Shake for Me (Chicago Blues)
Dodds, Johnny - King of the New Orleans Clarinet
Doggett, Bill - Every Day I Have The Blues
Doriz, Daney - This One's For Basie
Dumoustier Stompers - Champs (French neo-swing?)
Edison, Harry - Just Friends
Edison, Harry & Earl Hines - Just You, Just Me
Edison, Harry and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Sweets and Jaws
Ellington, Duke - Playing The Blues (!!!)
Francis, Panama - Gettin' In The Groove (I want it! If I can find a good price... PF is one of the great unavailable swing artists, from what I've read)
Francis, Panama & The Savoy Sultans - Gettin' In The Groove
Glenn, Lloyd - DB&B
Grapelli, Stephane - Duet
Grapelli, Stephane - Sweet Chorus
Grapelli, Stephane (and Slam Stewart?) - Stef & Slam
Grappelli, Stephane - London Meeting
Grey, Al - Grey's Mood
Grey, Al & Arnett Cobb - Ain't That Funk For You
Grimes, Tiny - Food For Thought (DB&B)
Grimes, Tiny - Some Groovy Four
Guarnieri, Johnny - DB&B
Hampton, Lionel - '77 Vintage
Hampton, Lionel - Volume 2 (of what?)
Hawkins, Erskine - From Alabama To Harlem
Hines, Earl - '65 Piano Solo
Hines, Earl - At Sundown
Hines, Earl - In Orange
Hines, Earl - Live
Hines, Earl - Night at Johnnies
Hinton, Milt - Basically With Blue
Holley, Major - Confessin'
Holley, Major - Excuse Me Ludwig
Holley, Major - Hey There
Holley, Major - Mule
Hopkins, Claude - Safari Stomp
Humes, Helen - DB&B
Humes, Helen - Let The Good Times Roll (?!)
Jackson, Oliver - Trio
Jacquet, Illinois - God Bless My Solo
Jacquet, Illinois - Jacquet Street
Jacquet, Illinois - Jacquet's Street (or Jacquet Street)
Jacquet, Illinois - The Man I Love
Johnson, Budd - Mr. Bechet
Johnson, Budd - Ya Ya
Johnson, Candy - Freight Train
Johnson, Luther - Born In Georgia
Johnson, Luther "Guitar Jr."- Luther's Blues (never heard him, but it seems promising)
Johnson, Luther Snake Boy - They Call Me The Popcorn Man
Jones, Jo - Smiles
Lejeune, Phillipe - Blues Emotion
Les Gigolos - En Concert (French neo-swing?)
Mabone, Willie - Cold Chilly Woman
McShann, Jay - Confessin' The Blues
Milton, Roy - Instant Groove
Montier, Nicolas - Interdit D'Ecouter
Newman, Joe - I Love My Baby
Oliver, Sy - Yes Indeed! (Great!)
Paris Swing Orchestra - We Got Rhythm
Perkins, Pinetop - Pinetop Is Just Top
Price, Sammy - DB&B
Price, Sammy - Rockin' Boogie
Proust, Jean Michel - Harlem Nocturne (?)
Richards, Red - It's A Wonderful World
Rowles, Jimmy - Shade & Light
Shavers, Charlie & Budd Johnson - Live
Slim, Memphis - Boogie For My Friends
Stewart, Slam - Fish Scales (DB&B)
Stewart, Slam - Slam Bam
Stewart, Slam - Slamboree
Tate, Buddy - Broadway
Tate, Buddy - Celebrity Club Orch.
Tate, Buddy - When I'm Blue
Tate, Buddy + Milt Buckner + Wild Bill Davis - Midnight Slows (note: Amazon mistakenly lists the artists as the album and vice versa)
Teddy Wilson - Three Little Words
Thompson, Sir Charles - Just Friends (B3)
Turner, Big Joe - Texas Style (stride -- i think)
Turner, Big Joe - I Inderstand
Turner, Joe - DB&B (blues vocals -- i think)
Turner, Joe - Joe's Back In Town
Turney, Norris - DB&B
Vinson, Eddie & Jay McShann - DB&B: Jumpin' The Blues
Walker, T-Bone - Feelin' The Blues
Wells, Junior - Everything Gonna Be Alright
Williams, Claude "Fiddler" - My Silent Love
Witherspoon, Jimmy - DB&B
Woods, Chris - DB&B
Ziegler, Finn - Sposin (?)


VA
Boogie Woogie Masters
Chicago Blues Festival '70
Chicago Blues Festival 1 1969-1971
Chicago Blues Festival 2 1972-1973
Chicago Blues Festival, Vol. 3: 1974-1976
Chicago Blues Festival, Vol. 4: 1977-1982
Chicago Blues Festival, Vol. 5: 1983-1986 [LIVE]
1969-86 Chicago Blues Festival [BOX SET]
Explosive Drums
Special Swing Dance (??)

please someone post here... make me feel wanted... i almost missed class the other day working on this thread...

i did notice that in some cases the music here might be a bit looseygoosey. for example "cleanhead's back in town," recorded at eddie vinson's peak period in the fifties, is far better than his DB&B.

I order Tiny Grimes', Some Groovy Fours after hearing Rayned play "He'll Never Sweat" at SoFlex. It should come in any day know.

Yakov, thanks for your hard work.

And to think i thought my 20 B&B were a good portion of their output. How humbling.

Is the Black & Blue Label US based or not? I've heard a few CDs but I personally only have one. They seem to put out less know recordings.

What titles do you guys have and what do you suggest?

Serg

I've heard the Claude "Fiddler" Williams, it rawks.
B&B is a France based label.

thank you for making me feel wanted.

CafeSavoy wrote:And to think i thought my 20 B&B were a good portion of their output. How humbling.

it's always good to have some new goals as far as CD shopping Rayned....